Quotes with has-been

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  • Vince Lombardi There is only one way to succeed in anything and that is to give everything. I do and I demand that my players do. Any man's finest hour is when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle... victorious.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • John Frederick Boyes There is scarcely a man who is not conscious of the benefits which his own mind has received from the performance of single acts of benevolence. How strange that so few of us try a course of the same medicine!
    John Frederick Boyes
    English scholar of classics (1811 - 1879)
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  • Joseph Conrad There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Billy Corgan There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Barbara Amiel There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bhagat Singh There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Carolina Herrera There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that it has shared the successes of all its rivals and that it has passed at least one test which they have failed.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Harrison There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.
    Source: State of the Union Addresses of Benjamin Harrison
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Auberon Herbert There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Edward Hoagland There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Bret Harte There was commotion in Roaring Camp. It could not have been a fight, for in 1850 that was not novel enough to have called together the entire settlement.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Boyd Holbrook There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
    Boyd Holbrook
    American actor and model
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  • Bill Medley There were moments that Bobby and I would come offstage after performing in front of 20,000 people and say, 'Wow, how did that happen?' It's been a blessed life.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bill Bryson There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Beck There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Brit Hume There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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